[…] or any other version) with anyone who doesn’t read it as literature but merely searches its pages for proofs of his predilections and prejudices. The proof-texting reader has never read the Bible. One must […]
[…] of years ago a committee of English Protestant scholars planned a major Bible translation, conceived in concern for their age of apathy and dedicated to the proposition that contemporary language was essential. Millions of […]
Thus Clinton Larson in an interview published in Dialogue for Autumn 1969. Dr. Larson, whom Karl Keller has described as the first “Mormon poet,” also affirmed a hope that “If . . . literary […]
From safe within the geographical and philosophical matrix that is the Church, it is often difficult for people my age and older to realize that such a thing as a “generation gap” may in […]
[…] of Joseph’s effort to keep a personal record at that time. The Diary account is given here for comparison: . . . while setting in my house between the hours of ten & 11 […]
[…] and early years. Thorough in all things, he acquired the habit of consulting the best available references for events which he had not personally observed and he wove this detail smoothly into his own […]
[…] they had been faithful and true to their covenants. Perhaps a few knew that their suffering counted for a great deal more; one or two may even have realized that in spite of all […]
[…] of Carol Lynn Pearson. The music is lively, impressive, and highly rhythmic, but the qualities that beg for comparison to Promised Valley are in short supply. The music is fun and exciting, but there […]
[…] admitted this. She did not, however, confess that she had never had a suitor or a date for that matter. Her mother had had a friend who had a son, and twice while she […]
Brothers and sisters, I find this a bittersweet year for me to be participating in a Mother’s Day program, for my own mother passed away last November and my husband’s mother was buried just […]